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Changes in Diet May Have Led to Humans Having Smoother Skulls
February 28, 2026 Discover magazine
Learn more about human skull shape and how it has changed over millions of years.
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The Origin of the Badlands, South Dakota
February 28, 2026 Answers in Genesis
The Badlands canyons and cliffs are beautiful. What is the real history behind the rock layers and fossils found there, and what can we learn along the way?
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How will we know if AI is smart enough to do science?
February 27, 2026 Science
New tests gauge whether large language models can use their deep troves of knowledge to actually make discoveries
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On the Growing Evidence of Designed Mutations
February 27, 2026 ID the Future
the question of when genetic mutations are random versus directed. Bartlett explains that the issue isn’t an all-or-nothing affair.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists compared dinosaurs to mammals for decades but missed this key difference
February 27, 2026 Science Daily
Dinosaurs weren’t just big reptiles with babies -- they were shape-shifting ecological players whose kids and adults lived in almost different worlds.
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News Update/Commentary
Stunning 3D maps reveal DNA is structured before life “switches on”
February 27, 2026 Science Daily
a complex scaffold is built early to control which genes will later turn on
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How Can I Know Evolution Is Wrong?
February 27, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Making a TOBD Easy: A Conversation That Says It All
February 27, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
theory of biological design
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Assembled During the Flood and Sculpted by Ice
February 27, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
North Cascades National Park
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Engineered Genomic Changes in Adaptation
February 27, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Debating Intelligent Design
February 27, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Critic Keith Fox Is Still Stuck on Old Talking Points
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Fine-Tuning and the Infinite Multiverse
February 27, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Alaska's melting glaciers are revealing long-lost frozen bodies
February 27, 2026 National Geographic
In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided by a warming planet.
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How did mosquitoes get their taste for our blood?
February 26, 2026 Scientific American
Ancient humans may hold the clues ... A new genetic analysis suggests some mosquitoes’ taste for human blood may date back 1.8 million years
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Early hominin arrival in Southeast Asia triggered the evolution of major human malaria vectors
February 26, 2026 Scientific Reports
Some species of the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles mosquitoes in Southeast Asia are highly anthropophilic and efficient vectors of human malaria parasites, while others primarily feed on non-human primates
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New Theory Suggests Consciousness May Come from a Hidden Wave in the Brain
February 26, 2026 The Debrief
In the search for the physical source of consciousness, neuroscientists have long looked to neurons as the likely answer. However, a provocative new theoretical paper challenges that assumption
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Of Logic and Lawyers: AI’s Fragile Competence
February 26, 2026 Mind Matters
The case against near‑term legal automation -- and the AI blind spots that still matter.
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What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals
February 26, 2026 New York Times
Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there.
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Bad News for Neo-Darwinism
February 26, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Giraffes and the Fossil Record
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Foundational Evidence for Design
February 26, 2026 Science & Culture Today
The Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics
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Will Humans Still Matter in an AI Economy?
February 26, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Blog Post
Epstein and the End of “Pure” Science
February 26, 2026
Podcasters are asking me how I feel about The End of Science, which was published 30 years ago. Do I still cling to my ridiculous claim that science is over?
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JWST Sees Signs of Youth at Uranus
February 26, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists report ‘strange’ magnetic forces warping Uranus and temperature anomalies that point to a young solar system
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Surprising partner preference found in matings between Neanderthals and modern humans
February 26, 2026 Science
Male Neanderthals tended to pair up with female modern humans, but whether intercourse was consensual is unclear
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased
February 26, 2026 Science, v.391, n.6788, p.922-925
Although a low level of Neanderthal ancestry is present in most humans, these regions are not uniformly distributed. A handful of regions in the autosome are entirely devoid of such ancestry in essentially all living humans
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When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usually the fathers
February 26, 2026 New Scientist
Genetic evidence hints that there was a strong bias for male Neanderthals and female humans to mate, rather than any other combination
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How oxygen enriched the Earth's atmosphere 2.5 billion years ago
February 26, 2026 University of Tübingen
researchers investigate how O2-producing cyanobacteria survived toxic iron compounds to flourish and multiply
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Jumping DNA Sequences Drive Early Tumor Growth
February 26, 2026 The Scientist
LINE-1 retrotransposons are mobile genome parasites that drive cancer evolution by reshuffling the host genome.
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Creation Research Debunking Chromosome 2 Fusion Confirmed by Evolutionary Scientists
February 26, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Origins, Destiny, and Intelligent Design
February 25, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Brain, think on thyself
February 25, 2026 knowable magazine
What the science of self-awareness can tell us about confident decision-making
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Why Samotherium Isn’t Missing Link
February 25, 2026 ID the Future
Long Necks and Tall Tales
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Why AI Can’t Replace Us Functionally
February 25, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Forget flatfooted lumbering T. rex
February 25, 2026 phys.org
New research shows it walked on tiptoes
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade
February 25, 2026 Nature v.652, p.1240-1244
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Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud
February 25, 2026 Nature
Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade
February 25, 2026 Nature
Alvarezsauroids are an enigmatic clade of predominantly small-bodied theropod dinosaurs that are known mainly from the Jurassic to Cretaceous periods of Asia and South America
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Why Y? It’s More than Just a Guy Thing
February 25, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Creation and evolution generate very different perspectives on sex and on scientific understanding
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News Update/Commentary
Lost fossils reveal sea monsters that took over after Earth’s greatest extinction
February 25, 2026 Science Daily
One of these creatures had relatives stretching from the Arctic to Madagascar, showing that some of the first sea-going tetrapods spread across the globe with remarkable speed.
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News Update/Commentary
NASA study finds ancient life could survive 50 million years in Martian ice
February 25, 2026 Science Daily
If life ever existed on Mars, its best hiding place may be frozen deep within the planet’s ice.
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How Did Animals Develop Defense and Attack Structures?
February 25, 2026 Answers in Genesis
In the beginning, God made everything very good. That means the world was perfect. There was no sin, no death, no suffering, and no disease.
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Biology (and Cosmology) as Footnotes to Plato
February 24, 2026 Science & Culture Today
A Review of Wynand de Beer
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Yunxian Skulls Reassigned Based on Evolution, Not Data
February 24, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Like It Never Happened
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Quantum life
February 24, 2026 Oxford Scientist
The worlds of quantum physics and biology seem incompatible. Biology is full of complex, often seemingly chaotic systems, while quantum mechanics involves precise calculations for tiny particles.
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Major gap in Earth's rock record likely due to tectonics -- not glaciers
February 24, 2026 phys.org
The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks represents a gap of around a billion years of history.
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Can the Flagellum Get Any Better?
February 24, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Yes! Add Gears
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Are We More Than Our Brains? On Mind, Meaning & the Mystery of Being Human
February 24, 2026 Premier Unbelievable?
why consciousness remains a “hard problem” for purely material accounts of the mind ... natural suffering and a grounded Christian framework for pain, hope and healing
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Why Original Sin Changes the Evolution Conversation
February 24, 2026 Discovery Science
Drawing from the Catholic Church and Darwin’s famous struggle with the problem of suffering -- especially the parasitic wasp example -- the discussion examines whether carnage and imperfection argue against design or instead point to a fallen creation
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Dear Bertrand, You Demolished Evolution
February 24, 2026 Darwin's God
on Bertrand Russell
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Biochemist Converts to Christianity After This Discovery
February 24, 2026 Aspiring Christian
When he set out to get his bachelors degree, he saw no reason to believe in God. He was taught that science held all the explanatory power for the complexity and origin of life. Once he got to graduate school, he found that this case was overstated.